Word: togas
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...looked like a revival of The Green Pastures. Or maybe a toga-clad troupe whooping it up in ancient Rome. But all those friends, Romans, and countrymen turned out to be simply the Order of the Biltmore Bath, gathered in Manhattan for a 75th-birthday celebration honoring James Aloysius Farley, grand old man of the Democratic Party and the Coca-Cola Co. Politically, says Farley, he is "not very active because I'm not invited to be." He nonetheless keeps in fighting trim with weekly sessions in a steam-filled room, "the one place where I can relax." Among...
...traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than the Emperor Hadrian. A spokesman for the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street groped for the right words to express the bank's official comment, came up with, "She's a glamour puss. We are really...
...Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed, did not get the scene at all. Said one bewildered beard to another...
...alarming, confusing facility. For example, we watch M playing cards while we hear X tell A of the afternoon last year when they met on the hotel terrace and discussed a nearby statue of a man and woman in classic dress. X describes every gesture, every hold of the toga. Meanwhile, the card game goes on before our eyes. For a moment we hear the players' voices, and one of them makes a remark which logically precedes X's first statement in the flashbacks that follows immediately. In this sequence, X and A continue their discussion of the statue, which...
...grain alcohol, range from crème de menthe to Ocha, an alcoholic version of Japanese green tea. To publicize his line, Kuwabara will send his black-belt boys to selected U.S. watering places this fall. "You see," he explains in fractured English, "a new campaign in an old toga...